Meet the New Jim Tedisco. Same as the Old Jim Tedisco.

It took career Albany
politician Jim Tedisco six days to flip on his pledge to do things differently
by talking about the positive issues. Yesterday, the same old Jim Tedisco
launched yet another desperate and distorting attack ad, going back to his true
career Albany
politician roots. Just like an Albany
politician, the false claims in Tedisco's ad have already been discredited by
the Albany Times Union.

"It's just like career Albany politician Jim Tedisco to
pledge to run a positive issues based campaign only to break his promise six
days later with desperate, false attacks," said Jennifer
Crider, Communications Director for the Democratic
Congressional Campaign Committee. "That's why voters are rejecting Tedisco and supporting
businessman Scott Murphy who strongly backs President Obama's jobs and economic
recovery act, which cuts middle class taxes and saves or creates 76,000 Upstate
jobs."

BACKGROUND:

Tedisco
claimed he was taking control of his campaign and rejecting the national
Republicans' attack ads. "Tedisco said going forward the content of his
ads will be more positive with him making the decisions instead of the
national party. ‘We're going to run a 20th District campaign and
talk about the positive issues, and leave the rest of the distortions to
the other side,' he said." [Glen Falls Post Star, 3/13/09]

To
date, the RNC has sent a total of $200,000 to the New York Republican
State Committee. They first sent $100,000 on the same day that
Tedisco rejected national Republicans and their attacks. The second
$100,000 was sent the day after Tedisco finally announced his opposition
to President Obama's recovery plan. [CNN.com, 3/17/09]

The
conservative National Republican Trust PAC was forced to take down one of
their misleading ads after they were unable to provide proper evidence to
back up their attacks. [Albany
Times Union, 3/16/09]